24 CITY
Pre-Release Screening
Tuesday 27 April, 8pm
Dir. Jia Zhang-ke, Cert. TBC, 112mins
Mandarin with English subtitles (China 2008)
A special screening of a film chronicling the thunderous fall of a state-owned munitions factory and its conversion into a luxury high-rise apartment complex. Jia Zhang-ke weaves the stories of three generations of factory workers into a fascinating history of post-revolutionary China. Blending documentary and fiction, interviews with workers are intercut with real and staged vignettes on life before and after 24 CITY.
New Wave Films
Tickets £12, Asia House Friends & Concs £8
All bookings through Apollo Cinema, Piccadilly Circus
19 Lower Regent Street, London SW1Y 4LR
www.apollocinemas.com/asiahousefilmseries.aspx
Tel: 0871 220 6000
Asia House
63 New Cavendish Street
London W1G 7LP
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